One day a great professor stands on the platform and gazed at the students arrogantly. He was a marvelous source of knowledge and some people call him the father of the English language. Most, of not all, students considered him an example to be followed. The mere problem is that he considered himself as he is right all the time and others are wrong. He corrects the students’ questions even before the students finish from it.
When I read the article about the African American context and how the teacher was beneficial from the linguistic competence and started to change her policy from direct correction to simply repeating the statement with American Standard. I was really wondering about the accepted way to evaluate the students in writing. Is it according to the structure or the idea? I was lucky to get a chance to observe writing research 202 and the teacher surprised me when she notify me that the idea is the most important thing to be evaluated about and it is the opposite of what I have experienced in my country.
During the discussion, I understand that the balance between the idea and the structure is the key role to solve the problem that I witnessed. A good way to help the students to write better is to ask them to write a draft and then the students have to go over and over again to improve his/her writing and reduce the chance of making many mistakes.
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